Sentences with phrase «by racial differences»

So while racial residential segregation has been decreasing over the past few decades, it still remains high, and very little of it can be explained by racial differences in income levels.

Not exact matches

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

There is no doubt a formal similarity, but the substantive difference from the Wallace confrontation is that racial segregation had been declared unconstitutional and was deemed an evil by most Americans.

There is a fundamental difference between the normal joshing between members of various ethnic and racial groups — what Dawidowicz referred to as low - key «antagonisms» — and the conventional understanding of anti-Semitism as irrational and unfounded hostility toward Jews, often accompanied by discrimination in employment and housing, for example, and by violent attacks.

Too often, white liberals try to demonstrate their racial generosity by insisting that color doesn't make a difference, and that aside from the natural accident of color we have in common our humanity.

That Paris subway train racial abuse and racial chants by the Chelsea fans mark a big difference between the racialess Gooners and the racial chants Bad Boys in terms of social and racial integration.

Racial and ethnic differences in breastfeeding initiation and duration, by state: National Immunization Survey, United States, 2004 — 2008

The reasons for the differences in maternity care practices by racial composition of the areas are not clear.

If there is any genetic basis at all to racial IQ test - score differences, it is indeterminate and poorly quantified, with recent studies estimating IQ heritability to be anywhere from nearly zero to over 80 percent, and strongly countered by other studies showing that environment counts most.

Racial differences in parents» reports of concerns about their child's development to healthcare providers may contribute to delayed diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in black children, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Some studies have suggested that the higher odds of breast cancer subtypes with unfavorable prognoses in minority racial / ethnic groups could be explained by differences in socioeconomic status.

To investigate this potential link, a team led by Rakhi Naik, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University) and Marguerite Irvin, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) analyzed data from a large population - based study, the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

For example, he says, the racial differences may not be relevant to hypertension, because blood pressure is controlled by arteries, not veins.

A recent joint statement issued by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association concluded that further research into racial and ethnic differences and improved cardiovascular risk - prediction methods in people with type 1 diabetes is needed.

The research, led by Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, sheds light on the racial and ethnic differences in trends of nonmedical opioid and heroin use over time.

The study looked to see if ethnic and racial disparities in breastfeeding could be explained by differences in the use of formula in hospitals, family history of breastfeeding, mother's belief that «breast is best»; and demographic measures including poverty, education and relationship status.

«Conversely, a majority of excess infant mortality in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana could be explained by compositional differences due to a larger proportion of non-Hispanic black births, which reflects a persistent racial gap that exists across the country.»

Some scientists are alarmed by claims of ethnic differences in temperament and intelligence, fearing that they will inflame racial sensitivities.

There has been a substantial reduction in racial differences in survival after in - hospital cardiac arrest, with a greater improvement in survival among black patients compared with white patients, according to a study published by JAMA Cardiology.

Additionally, whereas the BioCycle Study had greater racial diversity than comparable studies (3 — 6), our study was limited by different sample sizes among the racial groups, which may have limited our power to detect significant differences in some of our subgroup analyses.

The thing racial is being made by people there is no any difference made by god.

Solondz is the bamboo splinter beneath the fingernail of that shame — his manifesto lies in the decision to confront the ultimate causes behind our embarrassment with fetishism, our horror at the recognition of racial difference (suggested by George Bush Sr.'s boldly insane, «I don't see colour»), and our inability to treat people with physical disabilities as anything other than children or objects of pity.

By the time they're five and entering kindergarten, children begin to identify with an ethnic group to which they belong and are able to explore the range of differences within and between racial / ethnic groups.

The Coleman Report revealed substantial achievement differences by school racial composition and emphasized the importance of considering various factors that contributed to those differences:

The public opposes policies to prevent differences in discipline rates across racial group by a wide margin, with support even within the African American community falling in 2016.

District administrators were stunned by the results: The responses revealed virtually no statistical racial differences.

It also addresses the challenges faced by women who set out to join with one another to understand and support girls» development across racial, cultural, and class differences.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

In Other People's Children, Lisa Delpit explores the dissimilar styles of communication exhibited by people from different racial and class backgrounds, and how these differences might have a negative impact on learning.

In other words, racial disparities are not solely a function of differences in family income by race.

Research indicates that a gap in language, gesturing, and other developmental markers begins to open by age 2, Ferguson says — even though there are virtually no racial or social class differences in the mental abilities of infants before age 1.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

As Arne Duncan said at the time, «racial discrimination is a major problem today,» and disparities are «not caused by differences in children.»

Similarity by racial makeup calculates the five cities with the lowest total differences in Hispanic, Black, White, and Asian subpopulation percentages using a euclidean distance calculation, or the difference between two points using a straight line.

The 1998 study by Meredith Phillips and her colleagues, mentioned earlier, had the greatest success in explaining racial differences in achievement, yet the unexplained portion of the achievement gap on the vocabulary test used in their study was still so large that it nearly exceeded the raw gap in reading and mathematics we found in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey data.

Recognizing that disparities in disciplinary rates may be caused by a range of factors, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said in a joint letter that these differences can not be explained by more frequent or more serious behavior by students of color, but rather, «schools may be engaging in racial discrimination that violates the federal civil rights law.»

The paper demonstrates this point by showing that in the aggregate, a comparison of racial composition of sending and receiving schools shows no large differences — it appears that students are switching to schools of similar racial composition.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

Although racial / ethnic differences in private school enrollment are largely explained by income differences, the urban / suburban and regional differences in private school enrollment patterns are large even among families with similar incomes.

Much, but not all, of the racial and socioeconomic sorting we document is accounted for by differences in achievement, particularly at the high school level.

Since the only differences in the profiles across participants will be the gender or racial origin of the names on top, we would expect no significant difference by race or gender in the average likelihood of survey participants recommending a particular student profile for advanced coursework.

Blackstone Valley Prep is committed to the academic success, social and emotional growth, and health and wellness of 100 % of scholars in an intentionally diverse school that celebrates the racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and sexual - orientation differences of our scholars, staff, and families by actively engaging in courageous conversations about the value of peoples» differences; raising awareness of self and society's structural inequities; and empowering all people to engage in an open and honest dialogue with an active voice.

This movement has been induced by differences in school readiness and academic achievement between socioeconomic and racial / ethnic groups, and has shown that early interventions are cost effective and generally have the capacity to narrow achievement differences.

The states differ significantly in the racial or ethnic composition of students and in the characteristics of the families of students, so it would be expected that a significant part of the differences in the NAEP test scores might be accounted for by these differences.

Despite these gains, the rate of progress has varied among these racial / ethnic groups and differences by race / ethnicity persist in terms of increases in attainment and progress on key indicators of educational performance.

There has been considerable work from both hard and social scientists refuting arguments such as Brigham's and Terman's that racial differences in IQ scores are influenced by biology.

Our school profiles now include important information in addition to test scores — factors that make a big difference in how children experience school, such as how much a school helps students improve academically, how well a school supports students from different socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, and whether or not some groups of students are disproportionately affected by the school's discipline and attendance policies.

The study calls for more data looking at outstanding student loan debt by race and claims that focusing on undergraduate borrowing alone only reveals part of the picture of possible racial differences.